Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Intramural haematoma of the thoracic aorta: who's to be alerted the cardiologist or the cardiac surgeon? | Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery BioMed Central Open Access Review Intramural haematoma of the thoracic aorta who s to be alerted the cardiologist or the cardiac surgeon Nikolaos G Baikoussis 1 2 Efstratios E Apostolakis1 Stavros N Siminelakis2 Georgios S Papadopoulos3 and John Goudevenos4 Address 1Cardio-thoracic Surgery Department University Hospital of Patras School of Medicine Patras Greece 2Cardiac Surgery Department University Hospital of loannina School of Medicine loannina Greece 3Department of Clinical Anaesthesiology and Intensive Postoperative Care Unit University Hospital of loannina School of Medicine loannina Greece and 4Department of Cardiology University Hospital of loannina School of Medicine Ioannina Greece Email Nikolaos G Baikoussis - ngbaik@ Efstratios E Apostolakis - stratisapostolakis@ Stavros N Siminelakis - ssiminel@ Georgios S Papadopoulos - baikoussisn@ John Goudevenos - ngbaik@ Corresponding author Published I October 2009 Received II May 2009 Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2009 4 54 doi 1749-8090-4-54 Accepted 1 October 2009 This article is available from http content 4 1 54 2009 Baikoussis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract This review article is written so as to present the pathophysiology the symptomatology and the ways of diagnosis and treatment of a rather rare aortic disease called Intra-Mural Haematoma IMH . Intramural haematoma is a quite uncommon but potentially lethal aortic disease that can strike as a primary occurrence in hypertensive and atherosclerotic patients to whom there is spontaneous bleeding from vasa vasorum into the aortic wall media or less frequently as the .